by Dan on January 26, 2012
Today I received an email from reader Chad: I read your Q&A post. Thanks for taking the time to really think about our questions and giving us your honest answers. If you’re taking in suggestions for your next blog post, I have one for you. There are so many SEO tips from so-called “experts” and pretty [...]
by Dan on January 25, 2012
We are accepting applications for an internship at our house in Bali until January 30th. This weekend I asked the readers on the TMBA mailing list if I could help them out with any business questions. To those of you who asked the questions below, I’m happy to continue the discussion with further resources, links, [...]
by Dan on January 23, 2012
Summary: I’ve got a spare room at my house in Bali. You can stay with us for free in return for some SEO work we need done. It’s the easiest TMBA internship to apply for ever. It’ll take less than 10 minutes of your time. It’s a smaller opportunity than we’ve offered in the past, [...]
by Dan on January 18, 2012
1851 people have decided to receive the Tropical MBA blog feed. If you don’t yet use RSS feeds, here’s an explanation of how they work. It takes about 2 minutes to set up. If you are a twitter user, I tweet like it’s my job! What you’ll find below is a bunch of stuff I learned after I started my [...]
by Dan on January 16, 2012
1807 souls have decided to receive the Tropical MBA blog feed. Thanks! That’s how I read stuff too. If you don’t yet use Google Reader to read blogs, here’s an explanation of how it works. It takes about 2 minutes to set up. If you are a twitter user, I almost always tweet about new posts a few [...]
by Dan on January 9, 2012
“Then there is the most dangerous risk of all– the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” — Randy Komisar, The Monk and the Riddle Vague social pressure– social inertia– was a problem for me in my 20′s. I found [...]
by Dan on January 2, 2012
Happy new year! Tomorrow I’m heading to Singapore to explore the city for a week. If you are there, I’d love to meet you for lunch. When meeting new people, I’ve found it’s useful and fun to have a small inventory of conversation topics that are fun for everyone to participate in. This week, I’ve stumbled on [...]
by Dan on December 30, 2011
Shitbags, I forgot to do a 2011 wrap-up. Ah well, here it is: nearly 8,000 unique souls come to this website monthly via our mailing list (2,000+ people), my twitter account (8376 followers), and by subscribing to our RSS feed (1697 subscribers… check out what is RSS and how does it work?). 240 established location independent [...]
by Dan on December 29, 2011
Kevin Kelly, who wrote one of the best books I have ever read, also wrote an influential article for bloggers and artists called “1000 True Fans.” It said a lot of things, but the one that resonated most for me: if you can cultivate 1000 true fans, they’ll spend $100 dollars on your art every [...]
by Dan on December 27, 2011
Chris from Coconut TV (I am on the mailing list after that link, and I suggest that you get on it too… food TV is South East Asia!? That’s my bag, baby!!!…) emailed me this morning with 50 rules for building a business from anywhere, a continuation of my list of rules. Chris has been building businesses and [...]